It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,
Parallel translations
- WEB doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
- KJV Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
- BSB It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
- NKJV does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
- NLT or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
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Quick answer
Love is not rude, self-seeking, or easily angered, and keeps no record of wrongs. It is oriented toward others, not self.
Overview
Paul continues cataloguing love's selfless character. Love behaves with propriety, surrenders its own rights, refuses irritability, and does not tally up offenses. Each trait counters the self-assertion and division at Corinth, and each reflects the gracious, forgiving heart of God toward sinners in Christ.
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- 1 Cor 10:24Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.
- Phil 2:3–5doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
- 1 Jn 3:16–17By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- Jas 1:19So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
- Phil 2:21For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
- Phil 4:8Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
- Gal 6:1–2Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
- Rom 15:1–2Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
- Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
- 1 Cor 12:25that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
- 2 Cor 5:19namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
- 1 Cor 10:33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
- Rom 14:12–15So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
- Matt 5:22But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
- 1 Cor 11:18For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
- Luke 7:39Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”
- Mark 3:5When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.
- 2 Th 3:7For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,
- 1 Cor 11:21–22For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.
- Matt 9:4Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
- 1 Cor 7:36But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.
- Isa 3:5The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
- Jer 40:13–16Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
- 1 Cor 14:33–40for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
- 2 Sam 10:3But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”
- Jer 18:18–20Then they said, “Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
- Ps 106:32–33They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;
- Prov 14:17He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.
- 1 Cor 11:13–16Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?
- 2 Tim 2:10Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
- Jer 11:19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn’t know that they had devised devices against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
- Num 12:3Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.
- Job 21:27“Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.
- Num 16:15Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”
- Num 20:10–12Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”
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